Art & Design

Find your theme - get inspired!

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AO3 is all about experimenting - but you can't start on that until you've found a theme that inspires you. This Revision Bite should help you find subjects you can really go to town on.

Getting ideas to flow - 1

You can get lots of ideas by making a spidergram, mindmap or flowchart. Don't stop until there's nothing left to write, however strange the connections you make!

Making your spidergram

Write the theme your teacher has given you in the middle of a piece of paper. Then just see what that theme makes you think about. Whatever it is, write it down, and then see what that makes you think about next. Just let each idea connect in some way with the next. Let your ideas flow. Don't worry that they might seem silly.

Have a look at Shreya and Kathy's spidergrams below for examples of the start of a spidergram - click on them to see a bigger version. (If you have Flash, click Magnify to see the detail - to remove the viewfinder just click Magnify again.)